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to that of high water without, except in times of flood, when the ex- 
cess of fresh water in the river supplies the deficiency of tide-water. 
It is evident that the complete removal of this obstruction would enable 
every tide to overflow ground now covered only by the annual river- 
floods ; and, on the other hand, the river would be daily drained out to 
the level of the low tide. Such an obstruction would without doubt 
produce a change in the water-level of Cumberland Basin, and might 
even enable trees to flourish a few feet below the present high-water 
mark ; but it could not under any circumstances enable upland-woods 
to grow nearly at the level of low tide in a country so well supplied 
with streams. 
The only remaining mode of accounting for the phenomena is the 
supposition that the subsidence to the amount of about forty feet has 
occurred in the district. Such a subsidence is not likely to have been 
limited to Fort Lawrence Point; and accordingly I have been informed 
by intelligent persons, long resident in the neighborhood, that sub- 
merged stumps have been observed at a number of other places, in 
circumstances which showed that they were in situ; and that trees 
and vegetable soil have been uncovered in digging ditches in the marsh. 
Nor are these appearances limited to Cumberland Basin. At the 
mouth of Folly River, on the southern arm of the Bay, a submerged 
forest on an extensive scale is said to occur; and in the marshes of 
Cornwallis and Granville vegetable soils are found under the marsh. 
These facts render it probable that the subsidence in question bas 
extended over the whole shores of the Bay, and that the marshes 
have been deposited and the present lines of coast-cliffs cut since Its 
occurrence. 
‘ hemian Forests and Peat-bogs; by Dr. HocustETTER*.— 
primitive forests on Prince Schwarzenberg’s domain, viz., at nes 
Winterberg, and Stubenbach, may at a considerable distance be easily 
_* From the Proc. of the Imp. Geol. Inst. of Vienna, Jan. 23, 1855; translated 
and com t Marschall. Cited from Mag. Nat. Hist. [2], xvi, 878. 
